Crazy Over Him

2: Seong Jihun Who?

"Park Chaeyoung!" the drama teacher, Mr. Jeon, called out loud. Rosé rolled her eyes and tucked her phone away.

"Yes, sir?" she replied dryly.

"Why were you late? It's the first day of school."

"Yeah, it's the first day. At least I didn't skip."

"Stop speaking casually. And arrive earlier tomorrow or there will be consequences."

Rosé nodded and took out her phone, to which the teacher snatched from her hand.

"No phones. Pay attention to the movie. It's based on the play that everyone will reenact at the end of the year."

Mr. Jeon returned to his desk and placed Rosé's phone in one of his drawers. He turned a few of the lights off and started the movie.

Rosé looked around at her surroundings. She had nothing to do, and the movie was deemed boring to her so she only had a pen to draw on her desk with.

"Hey, you shouldn't draw on school property..." someone sitting next to her whispered as she sketched a flower on the table.

She looked up to see an unfamiliar face who looked quite familiar at the same time, but she was certain that she had no idea what his name was. From his handsome looks and attractive voice, she was already interested in what it'd be like to have him call her name.

"Are you-"

"No, I'm not a new student. I'm Ryan," he whispered and took the pen from her hand.

Rosé leaned back in her chair and studied him. She's known many people named Ryan and been with many of them too, but she was now trying to figure out why she didn't know about the Ryan right in front of her.

"Are you gonna give me my pen back?" Rosé asked to study his reaction. She's not the type of girl to flirt right away, just in case the guy is some kind of weirdo.

Ryan shook his head and put Rosé's pen in his backpack.

"Then I guess you owe me something in return. Give me your phone number."

Ryan looked at her through the corner of his eye then pointed to the screen. "Pay attention to the movie," he said.

"Why should I? You look a lot more interesting than some dumb play. How old are you?"

Ryan ignored her but she reached over and felt his bicep.

"Come on, Ryan. Just tell me what year you're in."

The two were seated at the back of the class. Ryan wanted to sit at the front but the drama teacher assigned seats randomly so he was stuck at the back with Rosé who arrived late.

"I'm a Sophomore. My name's Rosé."

"I know your name is Park Chaeyoung. I was assigned to give you an orientation of the school when you were new but you kept walking away from me."

Rosé pouted as she tried to remember what Ryan was talking about, then it hit her. Ryan was two years older than her and when she first started high school, he was supposed to show her around during her first week. But two years ago, Ryan had looked completely different.

"You're that dorky guy that showed me around on the first day? Ryan.... Sing or whatever, right?"

"Seong," Ryan corrected and she rolled her eyes.

"That's what I said," she replied more dismissively and leaned away. Realizing it was the guy who annoyed her two years ago made her lose interest in him completely.

For the rest of the class, Rosé fell asleep. When she woke up, Ryan had just left her pen on his table and walked out of the classroom. She lifted her head up and noticed the sweater she had been sleeping on.

"Where did this come from?" she asked herself, then she gasped as she saw the brand, "Balenciaga? Whose is this?"

She sniffed the sweater and it smelt like what could only be described as 'expensive.' Then she took a closer look at the tag and saw the Korean name 'Seong Jihun' sowed into it.

"Ugh, what kind of loser does this?..."

"Rosie-yah, why are you still in class?" someone asked as she walked into the classroom. "I'm surprised you even went to class, to be honest."

"Mr. Jeon still has my phone so I was... waiting for him to give it back," Rosé replied as an excuse. "What are you doing here, Lisa?"

"This is my next class," Lisa replied and sat at the desk next to her. "Is that your sweater? Can I wear it? It's kind of cold today and I didn't bring extra clothes."

"No," she said and held the sweater close to her body.

Lisa gave Rosé a confused look from the reaction she received. She saw that it was a sweater from Balenciaga but didn't think Rosé would care about something like that. They shared clothes all the time anyway.

"Okay... Wait, you know who else had that sweater? That chubby loser who's friends with Bambam. I saw him wearing something like that before so don't be caught matching with him or you'll have to be friends with Kim Jennie instead of me."

"Yah, don't even joke about him... or her," Rosé said with a shudder to the first person and an eye roll to the second.

"I saw Jennie with Jisoo again today so I had to hide or else she'll come talk to me. Jennie seriously has to stop hanging out with that nerd. Everyone knows Jisoo is friends with the chubby guy and Jennie's only gonna become less popular if more people find out."

"But Bambam hangs out with Ryan. Nobody ever stripped the Thai Prince from his title."

"Bambam is already popular by himself and besides, he's my cousin so of course he'll be as known as me. I don't know why he'd keep that chubby loser around. He's rich but who'd want hang out with that lump every day?"

"Ryan's not even chubby anymore. He lost all the weight in the summer," Rosé replied.

"Huh? How do you know?"

For a moment, Rosé panicked and didn't know what to say. She couldn't let it slip that she was flirting with him in class, so she came up with something.

"I saw him in the hallway talking to Bambam. It's easy to tell who's outside of Bam's friend group if they try to flirt with you."

"Ewww, he tried to flirt with you?" Lisa said and had a look of disgust.

"Yeah, totally. He probably wants attention now that he looks better than last year."

"Ha, people like him could look better? I'll have to see it to believe it."

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